When your weekends aren't booked up. Over the last couple of months we've had weekend filled with entertainment. After spending two months mostly cooped up at home recovering from her surgery (Snippy), or taking care of someone recovering from surgery (Twoson and me), we knew we'd want some fun. So we've

1. Gone to the State Fair. Twice. Once midweek, and again on the weekend.2. Gone to the state Renaissance Festival, and then to the Oregon Coast briefly, after.3. Gone to a number of movies, at least once going to two movies in one afternoon/evening.4. Gone to Rose City Comic Con Saturday and Sunday of last weekend.5. Gone gaming most every Saturday afternoon/evening, and lately fairly often on Sunday as well, sometimes instead of the Saturday game, but most recently in addition to Saturday.

But this weekend, in addition to Snippy being away, I have had nothing planned. No gaming, no events to attend, nada. It's amazing how much you can get done when you have two whole days available.

1. Stripping the bed, removing anti-allergen mattress and pillow covers, washing box spring cover.2. Laundering anti-allergen covers, replacing them on bed.3. Washing ALL THE SHEETS, folding and storing most; remaking bed.4. Dusting the apartment, excluding bedrooms.5. Dusting master bedroom. (Twoson's room is his space.)6. Vacuuming the apartment.7. Vacuuming the master bedroom.8. Tidying the living spaces, with TwoSon's help. It looks much neater now.9. Doing the coming week's food planning and shopping.10. Cleaning the kitchen.11. Watering the plants on the balcony.12. Cleaning and replacing the sugarwater in the hummingbird feeder.13. Finishing laundering all the new t-shirts I bought mumblety-some weeks ago.14. Finished laundering my work clothes for the coming workweek.15. Used online banking to categorize all our income and expenses for the last three months in preparation for doing a new family budget.16. Currently catching up on laundering the towels, handtowels, etc.

I feel very accomplished, and the weekend isn't yet over.

All this plus time for visiting the game store with TwoSon yesterday. Watching some television, reading a book I bought at Comic Con last weekend (Prepare to Die! by Paul Tobin, which I'm quite liking), and even a little writing. I also bought "Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift on iTunes Friday night, and added it to a couple of playlists. It's a fun song, and a charming upraised middle finger to her critics.

Of course, I'm not looking forward to work this week. It's the end of the month, which means mandatory overtime for yours truly. Ten hour days are not much fun, especially when they start at 5 a.m. (or 3:45 a.m. for me, when my alarm clock will go off in just over twelve hours as I write this). On the other hand, in two weeks, when I get a larger paycheck, well, we can certainly use the money.